Rare star 37 EP
Rigel
RA 78.6345° · Dec -8.2016° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Brilliant (mag < 1) +18
- Naked-eye visible +8
- Has a proper name +8
- Star +3
Total score 37
9 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Naked-eye visible · +8
- Brilliant (mag < 1) · +18
- Has a proper name · +8
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 15.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 8628 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 863 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1163.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1726 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- -6.933
- bv
- -0.03
- constellation
- Ori
- dist ly
- 862.8467
- mag
- 0.18
- name
- Rigel
- named
- yes
- spect
- B8Ia